Loading XML and Parsing with AS3

This is what the XML doc looks like:
<images>
<pic>
<image>photos/pic17.jpg</image>
<thumb>thumbs/pic17.jpg</thumb>
<title>Kevin's Evil Face</title>
<desc>This is Kevin layin down some tracks. Boho Digitalia - February 2008</desc>
</pic>
<pic>
<image>photos/pic18.jpg</image>
<thumb>thumbs/pic18.jpg</thumb>
<title>Matt</title>
<desc>This is Matt singin some live bgv's</desc>
</pic>
<pic>
<image>photos/pic26.jpg</image>
<thumb>thumbs/pic26.jpg</thumb>
<title>The 4923</title>
<desc>Once upon a time, Matt wasn't in the band yet and Kevin played bass. Kilby Court - A Really Long Time Ago</desc>
</pic>
</images>

And this is how you load it into Flash and parse it:
var thumbs:Array = new Array();
var images:Array = new Array();
var titles:Array = new Array();
var descs:Array = new Array();

///////////////////////////////////
///// vvvvvv LOAD XML vvvvvv //////
//+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++//
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var xml:XML = new XML();
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadXML);
loader.load(new URLRequest("images.xml"));
function loadXML(event:Event):void{
xml = new XML(event.target.data);
var total:Number = xml.pic.length();
for(var i:int = 0; i < total; i++){
thumbs[i] = xml.pic.thumb.text()[i];
images[i] = xml.pic.image.text()[i];
titles[i] = xml.pic.title.text()[i];
descs[i] = xml.pic.desc.text()[i];
}
loadThumbs();
}
//+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++//
///////////////////////////////////
///////////////////////////////////

///// LOAD THE THUMBNAILS /////
function loadThumbs():void{
// do whatever you need here
trace(thumbs);
}

This will make 4 arrays (thumbs, images, titles, descs) and populates them with everything from your XML file. I still haven't taken the time to figure out how to parse it into a 2D array, so if anyone wants to tell me how to do it, that would rock.